Posts by Anonymous South African Coward

Given the amount of corruption in tender processes in SA, this has got me wondering which of the prepayment companies supplied the system and just how dodgy they are.

You guys have NO idea. Excellent opportunity for enrichment.

We also have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Re: See Katrina, or Flint Michigan

On another note I know little of South African politics, but if the governors are anything like Blair/Cameronians, or Bushobamaites, they'll be falling all over themselves to line their pockets

BINGO. Nasty pocketses comes first, service follows after.

Re: I am confused

But don't the hosts have to be members of the domain in order to move a VM between them? Or would you just copy the virtual disk file(s) and create a new VM to use them?

No. As long as you can do any of the following :

- Restore from a good backup

- Move the VM over to another host (said host also doesn't need to be part of the domain, just a standalone host)

and the VM starts up fine without any errors, you're good to go.

All of the backup DC's can be on hosts joined to a domain, I'm more concerned about the primary domain controller, for with it you have the keys to the kingdom...

You can also move VM's between standalone hosts, but it takes a bit more effort. (See the previous poster's post above mine).

Replication between standalone hosts is a major PITA to set up, but replication between hosts on the same domain is a piece of cake.

But should the worst come to the worst, and you cannot get the host up and running, but can access the storage and copy the VM's VHD off, then you can just copy this to another host, set up a new VM with the existing VM's virtual HDD and Bob's your uncle.

Re: Fans?

I would think passive thermal control is much harder in space, where hot air does not rise.

What happens to air biscuits and barking spiders in zero gravity?

Re: Simple URL manipulation

Couple of years ago a vulnerability was found on the website of the City of Johannesburg where you were able to view utility bills from CoJ residents simply by manipulating the URL. IIRC it was also an unique identifier coupled to the person/bill/property.

The person who found the vuln tried to contact the CoJ, but nobody was interested, So, he went public.

Lots of people logged in to try out the vulnerability :)

One guy even wrote a script to download thousands of bills.

A lot of noise was generated from the direction of CoJ officials, including the threat of jailtime or a steep fine, but nothing came from that. They shut the website down for a couple of days to get it fixed.

A lot of fuss and a nice mess.

In contrast, one South African ISP also got a vuln on their website, when notified about that, they thanked the informer and fixed their website. No fuss, no mess.

Do you still get those flash cubes?

I remember those, played with an used one as a kid.